New Castle County Staff Picks - July 2023

Updated August 28, 2023
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Poverty, by America
Desmond, Matthew
Audiobook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The Eden Test
Sternbergh, Adam
Ebook
The collected regrets of Clover
Brammer, Mikki
Audiobook
The guest : a novel
Cline, Emma
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this "spellbinding" (Vogue), "smoldering" (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.   "Under Cline's command, every...
Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Audiobook
A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by...
Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon
Sevigny, Melissa L.
Ebook
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir/Biography Selected as a Southwest Book of the Year Top Pick Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for Reporting on the Environment, Honorable...
Enchantment : awakening wonder in an anxious age
May, Katherine
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make...
Taste makers : seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America
Sen, Mayukh
Paper Book
Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
Raw dog : the naked truth about hot dogs
Loftus, Jamie
Audiobook
What an owl knows : the new science of the world's most enigmatic birds
Ackerman, Jennifer
Ebook
An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into...
The perfumist of Paris
Joshi, Alka
Audiobook

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